Sunday, September 15, 2013

Study: Majority of Children's Books are still about White Males

In the most comprehensive study of children’s literature during a period of 100 years, researchers recently found that:

57% of children’s books published each year have male protagonists, versus 31% female.

In popular children’s books featuring animated animals, 100% of them have male characters, but only 33% have female characters.

The average number of books featuring male characters in the title of the book is 36.5% versus 17.5% for female characters.

Of an estimated 5,000 children’s and YA books released in 2012, only 3.3% featured African-Americans; 2.1% featured Asian-Americans or Pacific Islanders; 1.5% featured Latinos; and only 0.6% featured Native Americans.

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Viktor is a small town southern boy living in Los Angeles. You can find him on Twitter, writing about pop culture, politics, and comics. He’s the creator of the graphic novel StrangeLore and currently getting back into screenwriting.